Quotes - Katya Polo (katypolo) (Barranquilla, 04, Colombia) Showing 1-25 of 25

#1

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

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#2

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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#3

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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#4

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

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#5

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

tags: life-memories

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#6

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

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#7

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice

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#8

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

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#9

“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: children, unconditional-love

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#10

“For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”
― Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows

tags: love, sex, women

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#11

“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”
― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

tags: immortality, remembrance

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#12

“We only have what we give.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: charity, compassion, helping-others

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#13

“Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.”
― Isabel Allende, The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir

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#14

“You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

tags: inspirational

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#15

“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”
― Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul

tags: gender-stereotypes, men-and-women

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#16

“you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction”
― Isabel Allende

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#17

“Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

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#18

“Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.”
― Isabel Allende

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#19

“Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.”
― Isabel Allende

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#20

“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”
― Isabel Allende

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#21

“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: ines-of-my-soul, isabel-allende

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#22

“This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

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#23

“Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.”
― Isabel Allende

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#24

“The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . .”
― Isabel Allende

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#25

“Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: writing

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